Harleston Angling Club Junior Results July 3rd 2003.

Seventeen young anglers managed a total of ninety-eight pound fourteen ounces at the latest Harleston Junior Angling Club competition held Thursday evening in the Club Pit at Weybread. This averaged out at nearly six pounds per angler and only one dry net a good overall result with cold rain falling all day and a cool north wind blowing.

Hard work and practice has paid of for twelve-year-old Jack Weatherley with a well deserved win with twenty pounds nine ounces to follow his second place last week. Jack has practiced hard since the beginning of the season, fine tuning his pole fishing techniques on Weybread's plentiful Carp stocks. Jack drew well pulling peg twenty-eight on the road bank from the hat and made no mistake. Straight from the whistle he was into fish bagging up on small Crucians and Carp fishing shallow using the floating pole with hair-rigged meat on the hook. Light feeding with carp pellets kept the fish coming regularly for the first half of the three-hour competition, before the fish moved and the bites dried up.

Ever-reliable Daniel Elliott filled the runners up position with three Big Mirror Carp weighing fifteen pound two ounce from peg eleven to win a peg to peg battle with Thomas Sage on peg 12 by just over a pound. Daniel started on the method feeder tight to the island and waited over an hour for his first fish, a change to the floating pole with meat on the hook fooled a second mid match. Daniel then netted his last Carp with only fifteen minutes left on the clock caught on the short pole down the edge to pip Thomas Sage for second and put the pressure on Jack for the final few minutes. Daniel now leads the league from Charlie Hodd by seven points with three matches to go

Thomas Sage finished third his highest position this year with a bag of small carp and one big Mirror Carp weighing eight pound fourteen all caught close in with the pole and pellet combination fished at depth for a level fourteen pound and another eighteen points to keep him in third in the league.

Only twelve ounces separated the next three places with Charlie Hodd weighing nine pound four from peg three, Charlie pole fishing meat down the edge. Philip Shulver caught a personal best carp of six pounds seven as part of his eight pound ten ounce total, also his biggest match weight and highest finish, so a good night all round for the twelve year old.

Full result

1. Peg 28 Jack Weatherley 20lb 9oz
2. Peg 11 Daniel Elliott 15lb 2oz
3. Peg 12 Thomas Sage 14lb
4. Peg 3 Charlie Hodd 9lb 4oz
5. Peg 15 Philip Shulver 8lb 10oz
6. Peg 5 James Bygrave 8lb 8oz
7. Peg 13 Carl Shiplee 6lb 5oz
8. Peg 32 James Collings 3lb
9. Peg 8 Andrew Clifford 2lb 13oz
10. Peg 26 Kieron Loane 2lb 7oz
11. Peg 30 Ricky Leggett 1lb 14oz
12. Peg 19 David Labouchardiere 1lb 9oz
13. Peg 2 Shane Riches 1lb 7oz
14. Peg 7 David Shannon 1lb 2oz
15. Peg 29 James Aston 11oz
16. Peg 27 Edward Howman 9oz
17. Harley Moss DNW

League Position

1. Daniel Elliott : 58 points
2. Charlie Hodd : 51pt
3. Thomas Sage : 50pt
4. James Bygraves : 45pt
5. Jack Weatherley : 44pt
6. Kieron Loane : 33pt
7. Gavin Woodward : 30pt
8. Ricky Leggett : 28pt
9. James Aston : 28pt
10. Philip Shulver : 25pt
11. James Collings : 23pt
12. Edward Howman : 19pt
13. Andrew Clifford : 19pt
14. Harley Moss : 18pt
15. Kyle Savage : 17pt
16. Ben Carver : 15pt
17. Lisa Sillett : 15pt
18. David Shannon : 15pt
19. Karl Shiplee : 14pt
20. Samuel Clifford : 10pt
21. David Labouchardiere : 9pt
22. Shane Riches : 8pt
23. Damion Abbott, Daniel Drake, Ricky Shepherd : 0pt

Match Facts.

Attendance : 17
Venue : Weybread Club Pit
Weather : Warm and cloudy with a North wind.
Total weight : 98lb 14oz
Average weight : 5lb 14oz
D.N.W : 1